clicking on one corner

[asushi]

a kind of rapid clicking on driver side front corner developed in the last two days. is this a common sound for impending strut failure? my strut boot is gone already.

could it be the end links?

[Mike Gerber]

Are you hearing this noise when making right turns? If so, it's most likely the cv joint that is bad.

Mike

[asushi]

right. forgot to mention - this is not like a cv click. it happens only when the corner rebounds from a bump.

[Mike Gerber]

Are you talking about a clicking noise, or 1 clunk when rebounding or going over a bump? Also, waht year is the car?

Mike

[Gibson99]

it could be the upper strut mount itself - gen4 had a real problem with these when new, and even with the updated part it still does it some. but check to make sure none of the 4 nuts you can see from the top of the car w/ hood up are loose - any of those could make some major rattles as well. to check teh center one, bounce the car while looking at it - if you see it moving up and down seperately, its loose. it should pretty much follow the movement of the black metal of the upper strut mount.

[Mike Gerber]

"it could be the upper strut mount itself - gen4 had a real problem with these when new"

That's what I was thinking too, and why I posted my last question about the year of the car. It wasn't all the generation 4 models; only the 97-99 models that had problems with the upper strut mounts. The mount was changed beginning with model year 2000.

Mike

[asushi]

unfortunately it's a 93 v6 LE. i did a bounce test this morning and the strut performed superbly. I'm think it's just noisy endlinks now.

[abew330]

sway bar bushing?